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Maple Leaves Skewb Plus
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The Maple Leaves Skewb with the strange turns allowing for 90� twists that allow the puzzle to change its shape.

The maple leaves skewb plus is a variation of moyu's maple leave skewb cube. The inventor cut up the X-pieces in two halves. This allows the iconic midturns (image 3) to be performed in steps of 90�. This adds much more difficulty to solving and at the same time cause the puzzle to change its shape.

The puzzle has 388101852791572318382853121571734333680933574900368624515744750479116418940928000000000000000 = 388*10^90 permutations if all pieces are considered distinguishable and their orientations visible.
Compared with the normale skewb there is only one additional restriction:
-The permutations of the two piece types inside the circles always have the same parity.
Stickered as shown here the puzzle has 29541676804528501978409722715261127161507641392000000000 = 29.5*10^54 permutations.


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